So, I just finished playing the demo with my friend. I loved it! Now, I can never take any video game seriously - much less a Japanese [anime] one - so me and my friend were laughing and making fun of everything the whole time.
But the graphics were awesome, and I had a lot of fun! It looks really good with the 3D on.
At the end, I told my friend that this game was actually M rated, and he was surprised. You really couldn't tell from this demo.

I've downloaded the demo, but have yet to play it because I want to be just as surprised as my friend when I play through it and they watch. They don't understand why another friend of mine and I are always shouting Objection! Take That! and Hold It! at each other(All in good humor)

Does the demo have a court case in it, where Phoenix battles against a prosecutor? If it doesn't, then I'll just play through the demo myself.

A great appetizer for the actual game. I was going to buy it anyway but this just cemented my purchase.

Few things stuck out though: the vocabulary and measurements were all American even in the European demo. Sure, I can convert inches to cm in my head, but I still hope they'll localise those too to save me the trouble.
And I agree with @Blastoise-san they were trying too hard with Athenas character. Hopefully it's just in the demo, if they wanted to introduce her quickly.

I realized the game/demo was trying too hard to make the gamer like Athena when Athena tripped up some stairs in the demo (it was like the game was saying..."She just tripped some stairs! She's clumsy but doesn't that make her even more cool?" and then there was a moment where the game literally gave some details of Athena while she was posing and smiling at the screen.
And then... There came the court case where Thena kept popping up several seconds. I was like, "Okay, okay. I GET IT. You (the game) want me to like this girl because she offers some "comedic" value and is supposed to be appealing! Its not working as much as you want."
I loved the demo and I plan on getting this game. But, MAN... I hope the real game doesn't try to shove Thena in our face repeatedly.

So I finally saw Takashi Miike's film adaptation of Ace Attorney last night.

That was... an experience. It wasn't bad, and it was surprisingly faithful to the source material in many respects, but it was just... utterly bizarre to watch.

I did not really like it, except Von Karma, that was the one character that was perfectly nailed

It felt like the whole movie was dedicated to plot and not character. Which is fine for a film, I guess, but the characters and the way they interact with each other are probably the single biggest draw of the series for me. And Maya's character, and thus her relationship with Nick, didn't feel right at all. She had one moment of goofiness involving the giant Steel Samurai, but otherwise she always came across as serious and aloof - which is basically the opposite of how she is in the games.

Credit to Miike for staying true to many of the series weird aesthetics, at least, most of said plot was pretty much lifted from the game and the film became more compelling during the second half, once it was allowed to slow down and focus on a single case. Also, seeing Shu Takumi himself celebrate with the crowd at the end was definitely a treat.

"Can a man still be brave if he's afraid?" "That is the only time a man can be brave."The Revloggery

Athena's so miraculous and amazing super power I kept reading about, which made her so vital and important and necessary for Phoenix and Apollo is basically guiding the witness into changing their testimony by using nothing more than her really sensitive (and totally trustworthy, obviously) hearing and a a bunch of magitek to tell the witness how they are feeling... That's even more weird and possibly more illegal than using a medium in court in my opinion... Even worse than using your super eyes to tell if the person talking is nervous...